Started with protests in Daraa in 2011, the Syrian conflict rapidly turned into a war with a number of foreign powers supporting various militant groups (including al-Qaeda-linked) against the government of Bashar al-Assad. Since then, the country has been a point of instability in the Middle East.Russia began a military intervention in Syria in 2015 after an official request by the Syrian government for military help against militant groups.This allowed the Syrian government to survive and to regain initiative in a battle against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), ISIS and other militant groups.

I wish the best of luck to the official Syrian army. Assad is a good man. I firmly believe that.

xTheWarrior22

Yeah he is a good man, and he will win this war, as he has most support from his people thankfully.

Master Oroko

He also has the support of a lot of people outside the country of Syria. Either way, I would argue that he has already won.

Barba_Papa

Funny how Al-Nusra, with less resources then SDF and no US air support, can eliminate its rival Al Zenki in less then a couple of days, while it takes the SDF what? Now almost a year just to eliminate this tiny ISIS pocket?

xTheWarrior22

America’s “War on ISIS”

jako

“We don’t think the Turks ought to undertake military action that’s not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States at a minimum,” Bolton said, “so they don’t endanger our troops, but also so that they meet the president’s requirement that the Syrian opposition forces that have fought with us are not endangered.”
John Bolton

“Erdogan wants the U.S. to leave Syria and to take with it the arms it handed to the YPG to fight ISIS”